Word: edmunds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more painful disillusion with fulfilled dreams. James Tyrone is a financially successful matinee idol who has risen from immigrant Irish poverty. His wife Mary, raised in a lace-curtain Irish home, schooled in a convent, has turned to morphine after the illness in which she bore her second son, Edmund, (representing O'Neill himself). The eldest son, Jamie, has wasted away an acting and writing talent in a Broadway life of whiskey and cynicism. Edmund, vaguely seeking to be a poet after running to sea, has returned to the family's summer home stricken with consumption...
...agony of the play is not the individual suffering of the characters, but the suffering of the family as a whole. The play's dominant tragic figure is not any of the four, James, Mary, Jamie or Edmund, but Tyrone, the name and life which they share...
...cover the expenses Edmund M. Goodhue '67, manager of the tour, has already received over $13,000 and has over $7,000 more in pledges. On the basis of a questionnaire which Goodhue sent out last fall, an expected $50,000 will be raised from parents. The balance of the budget will come mainly from glee club alumni...
Poems & Twenty-Five Poems. Paul Valery, Charmes & La Jeune Parque. Arthur Waley, 770 Chinese Poems. Evelyn Waugh, Decline and Fall. Nathanael West, Miss Lonelyhearts. William Carlos Williams, Paterson. Edmund Wilson, Axel's Castle. Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse...
...this is literary poppycock. It may be true that De Sade is a fascinating figure; Edmund Wilson and Simone de Beauvoir have written studies on him, and the London-Broadway hit Marat/ Sade, as well as a new paperback edition of his writings, testifies to renewed public interest. But it is also true that he is the compulsive addict of every conceivable extremity within the technical possibilities of the human sexual apparatus. What he could not do he dreamed, and what he dreamed, he wrote. His letters can be analyzed in seven deeply felt but wonderfully inconsistent categories...